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trace of antient buildings within this cele- CHAP. 
VII 
brated valley ; nor would such a detail afford 
the smallest satisfactory information. With the 
description of the Theatre we shall therefore 
conclude our observations upon the HIERON; 
hoping that nothing worthy of notice has been 
omitted, respecting one of the most perfect 
structures of the kind in all Greece. 
We returned by the way of Coroni; and near journey to 
to Ligurid took a western course in the road Naupha ' 
leading towards Nauplia, the antient port of 
4rgos s . After journeying for about an hour, 
through a country resembling many parts of 
the Apennines, we saw a village near the road, 
with a ruined castle upon a hill, to the right, 
where the remains of Lessa are situate. This 
village is half way between Ligurid and Nauplia; 
and here was the antient boundary between Epi- 
dauria and the Arrive territory 4 . Those Ruins 
have not yet been visited by any traveller : 
indeed, there is much to be done through- 
out Argolis : this country particularly merits 
(3) 'H NATIIAIA, rt tiui 'Afyi'iut letutraJpn. Strab. Geog. lib. viii. 
p. 505. ed. Oxon. 1807. 
(4) Kara. SI rrn \tjrfai i%l-rau rtjf 'Afyt'iKs n '/?!/{/. Paus. Corinth. 
C. 26. p. 169. Lips. 1696. 
